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Amazon’s Kindle Fire slips to 4% of worldwide tablet market

The Kindle Fire may have captured more than 50 percent of the Android tablet market in the U.S., according to… Read More

Report: Target to dump Kindle

This could get very interesting, especially in light of the new alliance between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft. The Verge reports… Read More

Kindle Fire captures majority of U.S. Android tablet market

The Kindle Fire is just five months old. But Amazon.com’s touchscreen device already accounts for 54 percent of the Android… Read More

Amazon rolls out in-app purchasing for Kindle Fire, Android

Amazon this morning publicly launched in-app purchasing for apps sold through its Appstore for Android, hoping to make its mobile… Read More

Amazon Kindle gets 62% of U.S. e-reader usage, and Kindle Fire is 14% of tablets

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is out today with an epic report on the “rise of e-reading”… Read More

Amazon tests in-app purchasing

In a bid to compete with Apple and Google, Amazon.com has begun testing a new service that would allow in-app… Read More

Kindle Fire software update allows readers to share favorite passages

Amazon has begun pushing out a new update specifically for Kindle Fire owners that adds the ability to share favorite… Read More

Paul Allen-backed Xiant Mobile brings ‘smarter’ email to Kindle Fire with $9.99 app

Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire is known as a solid reading and media device. But when it comes to email, well, maybe… Read More

Google Android Market is bigger: But Amazon Appstore sells cheaper apps sometimes at greater benefit to creators

The Google Android Market is by far the biggest Android app marketplace with more than 400,000 apps. But if you… Read More

Barnes & Noble’s 8GB Nook Tablet matches Amazon’s Kindle Fire at $199, 512 MB of RAM

Barnes & Noble just confirmed that it’s releasing an 8GB Nook Tablet, and the price may sound familiar: $199, the… Read More

Report: Barnes & Noble plans 8GB Nook Tablet, trying to douse Amazon’s Kindle Fire

Barnes & Noble’s CEO previously criticized the 8GB of storage available on Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire as “deficient for a media… Read More

By the numbers: Amazon’s Kindle Fire vs. Apple’s iPad

Apple CEO Tim Cook noted at a conference in San Francisco this week that he wasn’t too concerned about rising… Read More

Apple boss Tim Cook takes a few cracks at Microsoft and Amazon, says tablets will ‘cannibalize’ PCs

Apple CEO Tim Cook leads the most powerful technology company on the planet. But even as the top dog in… Read More

USA Today’s internal app stats show Amazon’s Kindle Fire trouncing other Android tablets

Hey, looky what landed in our inbox. Here’s an interesting slide from a USA Today presentation that shows the number… Read More

Why Amazon needs a bigger Kindle Fire, as explained by Steve Jobs

A new report adds fuel to the rumor that Amazon.com will release a new Kindle Fire with a larger screen,… Read More

Amazon: 11 patent cases, $771M in acquisitions, and zero specifics on Kindle sales

Amazon filed its Form 10-K annual report with the Securities Exchange Commission this morning, and I’ve been dutifully scouring the… Read More

Estimates: Amazon sells six million Kindle Fires, drives 36% of Android tablet market

One of the key things we’ll be closely tracking on Tuesday during Amazon.com’s earnings call will be the overall performance… Read More

Amazon.com: What to watch in this week’s pivotal earnings report

Amazon.com’s fourth-quarter financial report on Tuesday afternoon will show how the company performed in the critical holiday shopping season and… Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Tablets will be bigger than PCs and why Kindle Fire isn’t hurting the iPad

Remember the report last month in which a financial analyst from Stern Agee cut his projections for iPad sales from… Read More

Microsoft Hotmail soars on iPhone and Android, now available on Kindle Fire

Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail has surpassed 12 million active users on Apple iOS devices — a dramatic climb resulting from… Read More

Gadgets galore: More than a quarter of Americans now own an e-reader or tablet computer

Nooks. iPads. Kindles. PlayBooks. Kobos. Americans are getting more familiar with tablet computers and e-readers, with a new study out… Read More

Analyst report: Amazon sold 5.5 million Kindle Fires last quarter

It’s always a guessing game trying to figure out how many Kindle devices Amazon.com has sold during a selected period.… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Kindle Fire, 520 apps, and 96-year-old tech enthusiast Bill Sleeper

The GeekWire radio show and podcast returns from its brief holiday hiatus this weekend with a special in-studio guest, Bill… Read More

Amazon.com settles patent dispute over Kindle Fire

Amazon.com has settled a patent infringement suit brought against the online retailer by Smartphone Technologies, a subsidiary of Acacia Research,… Read More

Welcome to Seattle, where 1 out 124 people own a Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire has been an absolute smashing success, and nowhere has it caught ablaze quite like Amazon.com’s hometown of… Read More

Geek Humor on Conan: Fake Jeff Bezos offers a few fixes for Kindle Fire

Problems with Amazon.com’s new tablet computer have been well documented, with the Seattle online retailer today announcing a software update… Read More

Amazon rolls out Kindle Fire update to fix early problems

With just a few days to spare before Christmas, Amazon.com has released a previously promised Kindle Fire software update (Version… Read More

Amazon makes last-minute Kindle holiday push with free shipping

Amazon.com has already sold millions of Kindles this holiday season, but it’s still hoping to get more of them under… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Paul Allen in space, Chrome vs. IE, Twitter reconsidered, tech gift ideas

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we explore Paul Allen’s new space venture, assess Google Chrome’s rise… Read More

Amazon selling more than a million Kindles per week, says demand accelerating for the Fire

It’s going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it… Read More